Laser Cut Pliers - Tongue Depressor

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Vectorized from the left half of https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:11332 by russrobot, this makes 50mm laser cut wooden pliers. Cut from a tongue depressor, because I love working with that material. stock material is 17mm wide X 1.70mm thick Assemble with wood glue. Optionally use a paper clip as the pin to secure to your paperwork and surprise your purchasing department with your next paperwork submission. Everyone likes receiving small, fully functional tools in inter-office mail. When gluing, consider clamping with https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3488410 v1 is the thinnest, lending itself to accompanying a paperclip v2 is the strongest, with the hexagonal hinge reinforcement, but also the thickest v3 is the most innovative with the pressure-fit hinge Pin. v3.1 extends v3 with additional alternate replacement hinge, and tabbed parts so they don't fall in (for those of us on honeycomb) Sliced and vectorized with tinkercad. Cleaned up and additional arm, jaw, pin and hinge holes layed out revised in inkscape 0.92